Infantino faces hostile Fifa council meeting over World Cup sell-off and peace prize

Gianni Infantino is set to face a grilling from Fifa council members in Zurich over his involvement in the aborted World Cup sell-off plan, the Folarin Balogun affair, and the decision to award Donald Trump the inaugural Fifa peace prize. It is the first time Infantino meets his critics since rejecting repeated calls for an extraordinary general meeting over the summer. One attendee has predicted the meeting could be explosive. The meeting is the first formal reckoning for Infantino over several controversies simultaneously, and its outcome could determine whether pressure for an independent review of Fifa governance gains serious traction.